River/Catalogs

This is a list of the longest rivers on the Earth. The data should be considered as approximate and informative, since it is difficult to precisely measure rivers' lengths and drainage areas, while the discharges variey considerably in time.

	River	Length (km)	Drainage area (km²)	Average discharge at mouth (m³/s)	Source	Outflow	Continent	Countries
1.	Amazon	6,520	7,180,000	180,000	inter-Andean plateau	Atlantic Ocean	South America	Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela
2.	Nile	6,480	2,880,000	1,600	Great Lakes region of central Africa (White Nile); Lake Tana, Ethiopia (Blue Nile)	Mediterranean Sea	Africa	Sudan, Burundi, Rwanda, Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt
3.	Yangtze	6,300	1,970,000	35,000	Qinghai Province, China	East China Sea	Asia	China
4.	Mississippi - Missouri	6,020	3,220,000	17,545		Gulf of Mexico	North America	United States
5.	Ob	5,570	2,975,000	12,600		Gulf of Ob	Asia
6.	Yenisei	5,550	2,605,000	19,600		Kara Sea	Asia
7.	Yellow	4,850	745,000	1,365		Bohai Sea	Asia	China
8.	Congo	4,700	3,822,000	42,000		Atlantic Ocean	Africa
9.	Amur	4,510	1,855,000	12,500		Sea of Okhotsk	Asia
10.	Río de la Plata	4,700	2,650,000	19,500		Atlantic ocean	South America	Argentina, Uruguay
11.	Lena	4,270	2,490	16,400		Laptev Sea	Asia

External links

• River systems of the World
• How Great is the Amazon River?
• Lengths of the major rivers
• Amazon Longer Than Nile River, Scientists Say